Gorillas on the Rise

Priority Areas

Climate Change

UN Environment’s Climate Change sub-programme focuses on helping countries to pursue low-emission development pathways and strengthen their adaptation and resilience capacities to the changing climate. In...
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Disasters and Conflicts

UN Environment works in dozens of crisis-affected countries across the globe. We support governments and other stakeholders to minimize the threats to human well-being from the environmental causes and...
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Environmental Governance

Everyone can live in safe and healthy societies when we come together to responsibly manage our environment. That is why UN Environment works with countries and organizations to promote stronger...
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Chemicals and Waste

Chemicals and waste are integral to our life, but also have major impacts on the environment and human health. UN Environment’s Chemicals and Waste sub-programme catalyzes action by helping governments,...
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Resource Efficiency

UN Environment's Resource Efficiency sub-programme supports countries, the private sector and other stakeholders to adopt sustainable consumption and production practices as well as policies that support...
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Environment Under Review

Integrated assessments, Big Data, sensor technologies and citizen science help to continuously keep the environment under review. Policymakers need such information to develop policies contributing to the...
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Ecosystem Management

UN Environment helps governments, the private sector and communities to reconcile competing and growing demands for ecosystem goods and services, such as water and food, with biodiversity conservation and...
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